Welcome to Royale Circus,
Time to have fun surplus.
Before you get your due,
These tasks you must pursue.
Time to read a book,
Tell the audience if it’s worth a look.
Tell a true tale, Whose moral still prevails.
Kenning or a tongue twister you pick,
Getting the right words is the trick.
With different adjectives, add comparisons,
Avoid wrong spellings for very good reasons.
Enact it, recite it or say it aloud;
Write right, listen tight and make yourself proud.
1. Answer the questions below:
a. What words in the poem help create the tone of instruction?
b. What are the rhyming words in the poem?
c. Based on your findings of questions a and b, briefly explain how the poem creates an atmosphere of fun while making sure the tasks ahead are understood.
Answers
Answer:
Don't know bro................Sorry.
Answer:
Book Review Writing
Introduction
If you love to read, at some point you will want to share a book you love with others. You may already do this by talking about books with friends. If you want to share your ideas with more people than your circle of friends, the way you do that is by writing a review. By publishing the reviews you write, you can share your ideas about books with other readers around the world.
It's natural for young readers to confuse book reviews with book reports, yet writing a book review is a very different process from writing a book report. Book reports focus on the plot of the book. Frequently, the purpose of book reports is to demonstrate that the books were read, and they are often done for an assignment.
A book review is a totally different task. A book review's purpose is to help people decide whether or not the book would interest them enough to read it. Reviews are a sneak peek at a book, not a summary. Like wonderful smells wafting from a kitchen, book reviews lure readers to want to taste the book themselves.
This guide is designed to help you become a strong book reviewer, a reader who can read a book and then cook up a review designed to whet the reading appetites of other book lovers.
Form: What should the review look like?
How Long Should It Be?
The first question we usually ask when writing something is "How long should it be?" The best answer is "As long as it takes," but that's a frustrating answer. A general guideline is that the longer the book, the longer the review, and a review shouldn't be fewer than 100 words or so. For a long book, the review may be 500 words or even more.
If a review is too short, the review may not be able to fulfill its purpose. Too long, and the review may stray into too much plot summary or lose the reader's interest.
The best guide is to focus less on how long to write and more on fulfilling the purpose of the review.
How Do You Create A Title?
The title of the review should convey your overall impression and not be overly general. Strong titles include these examples:
"Full of action and complex characters"
"A nail-biter that will keep you up all night"
"Beautiful illustrations with a story to match"
"Perfect for animal lovers"
Weak titles may look like this:
"Really good book"
"Three stars"
"Pretty good"
"Quick read"
The Storm Whale cover
How Should It Begin?
Although many reviews begin with a short summary of the book (This book is about…), there are other options as well, so feel free to vary the way you begin your reviews.
In an introductory summary, be careful not to tell too much. If you retell the entire story, the reader won't feel the need to read it him/herself, and no one appreciates a spoiler (telling the end). Here are some examples of summaries reviewers from The New York Times have written:
"A new picture book tells a magically simple tale of a lonely boy, a stranded whale and a dad who rises to the occasion."
"In this middle-grade novel, a girl finds a way forward after the loss of her mother."
"Reared by ghosts, werewolves and other residents of the hillside cemetery he calls home, an orphan named Nobody Owens wonders how he will manage to survive among the living having learned all his lessons from the dead. And the man Jack — who killed the rest of Nobody's family — is itching to finish the job."
"In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South." Other ways to begin a review include:
Quote: A striking quote from the book ("It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.") can make for a powerful beginning. This quote begins George Orwell's novel 1984.
Background: What makes this book important or interesting? Is the author famous? Is it a series? This is This is how Amazon introduces Divergent: "This first book in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy is the novel the inspired the major motion picture."
Interesting Fact: For nonfiction books in particular, an interesting fact from the book may create a powerful opening for a review. In this review of